Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.